Playfulness obviously isn't the order of the day in An Inconvenient Sequel: Truth to Power (Universal, 18), an unimpeachably intentioned but homework-like follow-up to 2006's hit documentary study of Al Gore's climate-change awareness mission.
Sometimes well intentioned, they were like being bullied at school: you were the centre of attention, but in a bad way.
Simply saying, "I'm sorry" is far more effective than personal anecdotes (however well intentioned) or platitudes like "God only gives you what you can handle" or "Everything happens for a reason".
Simply saying, "I'm sorry" is far more effective than personal anecdotes (however well intentioned) or platitudes like "God only gives you what you can handle" or "Everything happens for a reason". Do not force families to help you make sense of your own grief, they have enough to carry.
Calls the Billy Tauzin-Bill Thomas Medicare bill "curiously Hastert-like, huge, well intentioned, impenetrable".
[For the record, my main plaudits were on the section on cutting exposure to climate hazards.] Being a teacher, I tend to look at politicians, given all of their constraints, like well intentioned but over-committed students.
And while well intentioned, many social norms, like this, unfairly restrict the authentic teenage spirit.
But these efforts, though well intentioned, are a bit like explaining a joke -- if you have to dissect it, it's no longer funny.
"He [Burstow] liked him and thought he was well intentioned, and knew he was not trying to privatise the NHS".
"I like President Obama as a person, and he's well intentioned," Mr. Schwarzman told Bloomberg TV.
I, for one, am terrified when even the well-intentioned like you get this wrong.
